UCF Professor Enrique del Barco (IMAGE)

University of Central Florida

UCF Professor Enrique del Barco

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The international team, which includes UCF Physics Professor Enrique del Barco, created a new type of molecular switch that works as both a diode and a memory element. The device is 2 nanometers thick, the length of a single molecule (10,000 times smaller than the width of hair), and only requires a low drive voltage of less than 1 Volt. UCF provided the theoretical .

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